Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man
can’t retire his experience. He must use it.
– Bernard Baruch

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was
sixty-five I still had pimples.
– George Burns

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
– Ernest Hemingway

Retirement kills more people than hard work
ever did.
– Malcolm Forbes

When is the right age to retire? When you dread
going to work.
– Mary Bright

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
– Vince Lombardi

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband
but only half the income.
– Chi Chi Rodriguez

Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going
to retire.
– Margaret Mead

I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my
make-up box.
– Bette Davis

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more
time with my children, my grandchildren and of
course with my wife. But the problems are such that
for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it’s difficult to say no.
– Nelson Mandela

Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at eighty-nine. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at eighty.
– W. Gifford-Jones